This work won the 1970 Bancroft Prize, Columbia University, and the 1970 John H. Dunning Prize, American Historical Association.
Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University. He is a regular contributor to the New Republic and the New York Review of Books and is the author of numerous best-selling books, including most recently Revolutionary Characters and The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin.
"A brilliant and sweeping interpretation of political culture in
the Revolutionary generation."--New England Quarterly
"During the nearly two decades since its publication, this book has
set the pace, furnished benchmarks, and afforded targets for many
subsequent studies. If ever a work of history merited the
appellation 'modern classic, ' this is surely one."--William and
Mary Quarterly
"One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the
American Revolution."--New York Times Book Review
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